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. >> joining me, robert costa, national political reporter with the "washington post" and msnbc political analyst. greg miller covers the intelligence community for the "washington post." right on this story. simon marks is a chief correspondent with "feature story news." i want to go to robert, i'm watching poor sean spicer on the nanny cam basically being watched every minute by the president. the president clearly wants spicer and priebus to tell top intelligence officials to squash this. there's no secrets. he's trying to shut down any interests in his russian relations such as they were. >> not only a message to the media, a message to the congressional republicans. nunes from california certainly a major ally for the white house. he's out in front defending the administration. but the bigger question, chris, what are these senate republicans going to do? senator burr, others on the intelligence committee who are moves forward with an investigation on russia. that the view of the white house has not stopped those investigations from moving forward. >> so it's happening. let me go to

and we are told he's already started to work on it. >> all right robert costa, kristen welker on the trump beat for us. thank you both. let me bring in the panel. hello to all of you. susan, is this -- what do you make of what we're seeing? is this just today? is this after a realization. what do you make what have you've seen? >> let's remember, it's tuesday and monday was a holiday. >> yeah. >> we're grading him on a curve? >> that may be the case, i do not think you can overestimate the impact he's had on people generally to replace mike flynn with him, has been greatly reassuring to people in the national security mainstream democrats and republicans. and it means that there are a lot of criti like john mccain who now feel the team around president trump on national security affairs is one that you can trust to have good advice and strong advice. >> now the issue is, now they want to get president trump to say the same things as vice president pence did in europe. but in fact, i want to get -- this almost feels as if they realized, we were creating ourselves problems on capitol h

we need to hear from you >> robert costa for the washington post and our john roth. first, i want to follow up of what kasie hunt just said. there is a real disconnect of what trump is selling and what's called conservatives for years now. >> conservative supports free trade and they have been some what hawkish. they went the other direction and now they're also getting in line behind it. i can understand what casey said and they don't feel comfortable calling trump conservative. i want to get through this before we get to the town hall. robert. >> bannon is mysterious inside the white house. today he laid out the entire agenda in plain site. he wants deconstruction and now he's leaving cpac to come to the meeting tonight. bannon wants to up political order and articulated that. >> to what effect, right or left, what's his goal, bannon? >> it is destroying in his mind of the right/left of america's politics to make an establishment and nationals verses globalists. it is a different kind of project for the conservative right and not a traditional republican agenda in

>> robert costa does a terrific job as a contributor. >> bill: robert costa?>> bill: i don't even know who he is. >> he is a good reporter. >> he is very good. >> bill: but he's not a conservative presence. >> he's not an anchor. >> he is on all the time. on all the programs. >> bill: but he's not a conservative. on "abc news." who's a conservative presence? >> john carl. >> bill: john carl is a conservative in your opinion? >> yes. >> bill: okay. cnn. he was a conservative presence? >> i don't have one for you there. >> bill: msnbc? >> don't have one for you there. >> joe scarborough. >> yeah, joe scarborough. >> bill: five of the major networks, okay. enter your credit, came up with a couple of names that are debatable. at but no major people. i don't believe that carl -- >> bill. lester holt is a registered republican. >> bill: but he is not a conservative presence. nor should he be. he is an anchorman. those networks, all five of them, don't have anyone there. that just makes my point. if i ask you the same question about "the new york times" and "the wash

i'm joined by "washington post's" robert costa. both are mns mns political snbc analysts.hat was your reaction to this whole thing? first of all, personally, what it meant to you as a womb, an, citizen and what do you think the political fallout is? >> i thought elizabeth warren could not have done anything on her own to have helped herself as much as mitch mcconnell just helped her. he gave her a massive platform both in terms of her own favorability and personal brand. elizabeth warren up until now had kind of been a little l bbi more silent compared to winn wh snappers that have been trying to harness the progressive energy. it became a trigger point, some of the key bloof the base, bothr african-americans, they felt like he wasn't just silencing her, he was silencing coretta scott king, words of her and also women. it became a flashpoint for women who saw in that a form of bullying. chris, i went on twitter an some of the male trump voters who often troll journalists were using the word, shrill, and words that came up also around clinton -- >> she wasn't shrill. let me

we're adding robert costa to the conversation. jeremy and ali are still with me. i need counseling after listening to that. bob costa, take it away. >> take it away. well, this is an interesting episode for the trump white house. you have a lot of loyalty, emphasis on that, around president trump and you have -- >> but does loyalty include the permission to not just violate -- i mean, i have that ethic

we're adding robert costa to the conversation. jeremy and ali are still with me. i need counseling after listening to that. bob costa, take it away. >> take it away. well, this is an interesting episode for the trump white house. you have a lot of loyalty, emphasis on that, around president trump and you have -- >> but does loyalty include the permission to not just violate -- i mean, i have that ethic, you have to go to ethics briefings as white house staffers twice a year. i've been there six years. i think i went 12 times. she was just sworn in. she had to have just been briefed on the ethics, it is a clear violation. do you think loyalty includes, go ahead, break the law, kellyanne? >> not at all. i'm more based on my reporting explaining the culture that i think enables this kind of thing to happen. you have, for example, the sons who have been running the most of the trump organization. they're still participating in white house events like you had the nomination ceremony for judge gorsuch, his sons were there. and you have kellyanne conway, a counsel to the

with me now from washington is robert costa of "the washington post." bob, good to see you. >> great to join you, jeff. >> glor: let's talk first of all this article you had talking about the gorsuch nomination and how in fact the trump criticism, the president's criticism now may actually be helping his confirmation chances with democrats. talk about that, if you would. >> well, walking around the capitol this week talking to many senators including democrats, you got the sense that they were tempted now to go toward gorsuch or at least take it more seriously because of this flash of judicial yiption. -- independence, his comments privately to senator blum enthal of connecticut and several other senators showed how he was quote disheartened and demore allized, those were his words, about the way president trump was going over the judiciary and that has led many republicans in senate to believe that perhaps judge gorsuch could get close to 60 votes in the next few months once his hearings are over. the judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley of iowa

i'm robert costa. we expect how president trump is ushering in a new political order, tonight on "washington week." president trump: we will reduce your taxes. we will cut your regulations. we will support our police. we will defend our flag. we will bring back our jobs and our dreams. and by the way, we will protect our second amendment. robert: conservatives rally behind president trump at the annual cpac conference, reassured he's not backing down from his hardline campaign promises. president trump: our victory was a victory and win for conservative values. robert: declaring war on the media

i'm robert costa. we expect how president trump is ushering in a new political order, tonight on "washington week." president trump: we will reduce your taxes. we will cut your regulations. we will support our police. we will defend our flag. we will bring back our jobs and our dreams. and by the way, we will protect our second amendment. robert: conservatives rally behind president trump at the annual cpac conference, reassured he's not backing down from his hardline campaign promises. president trump: our victory was a victory and win for conservative values. ro

robert costa is a veteran trump watch per. thank you for joining us. is steve bannon and the publicity surrounding him which has been on all of our air and all of our paper and magazine covers, is that getting under the president's skin or does he look past that? >> well there has always been just one name on the marquee for the donald trump show, that's tr donald trump. in spite of his coverage on magazine and newspaper covers bannon is low key trying to build a relationship with chief of staff reince priebus, a long time party insider and bannon clashed with the rnc during his time at breitbart and trying to build a relationship with house speaker paul ryan as they get working on the legislative agendas. you have this bomb thrower to be sure but he changed his ways since he's entered the white house. >> maybe changed his ways since those executive orders because all of our reporting is that it was bannon's influence to include visa holders, green cardholders, contrary to the guidance from the professionals that state were unaware of that and homeland

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joining me, robert costa, national reply reporter for "the washington post," david frum, senior editor at "the atlantic" and on set, james tim, heading up trump versus reality, an ongoing effort to track the president's reality on ten campaign promises and nbc news political analyst, joel benenson. bob, i want to start with you. the president called mcmaster a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience when announcing the appointment. what is your take on the process here that the president and the administration went through and the ultimate decision? >> he did not have a long-standing personal relationship with general mcmaster. in fact, according to people who spoke with the president, are familiar with those conversations over the weekend at mar-a-lago, he was intrigued by the idea of perhaps selecting ambassador bolton. some within the white house have told the president that bolton is a very controversial figure, remains one. though he could maybe have another slot in the administration, it may not be best to have that big personality inside of the white house. mcmaster,

i want to bring in robert costa, "washington post" msnbc political analyst.his falls into my category the budget. the president is talking for maybe about a 10% spike in defense spending. this is tens of billions of dollars. he says there's not going to be a tax hike. he says there's not going to be a deficit increase, but it's really hard to cut $50 billion plus from the rest of the budget. thinking back to the sequester we tried this already it's hard. >> it's very difficult and part of the challenge for the trump administration is figuring out how to pay for some of the changes to thebudget. they want to increase military spending, trump, the president will be giving a speech later this week. we're told on military spending to back up what he says on tuesday night to congress, but he's also facing some challenges. does he have a border adjustment tax to try to get some revenue for the federal government as he makes some of these changes with his tax plan, and of course with his budget. it's part of what steve bannon talked about last week, the so-called de

help me out, robert costa. >> we have seen at cpac since george w.l and his father have done very well in the presidential straw poll and senator cruz. this year is different. it's been an embrace behind the scenes ahead of the event of president trump and his nationalism, populism, confrontational style when it comes to political correctness and rallying against the establishment. what's on the side, not the center is the conservative movement that came after barry goldwater. the old school movement right. it's not as powerful or influential this year. >> go ahead. >> i think it was your piece, our friend mike murphy talking about this saying the populous revolt style was sort of a wing to the party, give it a couple slots, beat it back and the establishment prevails. now it's the center of the republican party. >> that's a great point. when i was talking to mike murphy, he said the dynamic in the republican party was the establishment, country clubbers and then you have the bill buckley's and ronald reagans. they were the main camps in the gop. as

i'd be interested, joe, you know, what robert costa has to say about that.e's been around the white house covering this. >> yeah. bob, i wrote a column about this in your paper a couple of days about the federal judiciary and donald trump has been a businessman. he's been on tv. i'm sure he's had a lot of tough fights with courts and it's one thing to attack judges when you are a businessman. it's quite another to attack federal judges when you're president of the united states. in my reporting, i don't know the person that goes up to donald trump and says united kingdom attack federal judges. i don't know who that person is in that inner circle that would actually do that. do you? >> reporter: there's a whole conversation who can go up to trump and who can tell him what to do. based on my reporting, president trump has been a punch you in the jaw populist his entire career, public negotiations through public theatrics and fighting constantly to improve his own reputation and this morning some people saying it's not goingo stop but probably escalate, that he

it appears at least according to robert costa, trump is well aware of this and spoken to friends aboutwould he lie about knowing about this? >> because he's a pathological liar. what's interesting here is that we really have a test and we are being tested as to whether or not our democracy is going to survive. we have somebody who's mentally unstable who is a pathological liar. there's no getting around that. who's running our country. and if we can survive this, that will strengthen us in a strange way. what you're seeing all over the country with protests, nif never been through anything like it in the '60s when i protested against the vietnam war. this is everyone. it's not just people worried about being killed in vietnam, this is everyone. and so we're looking at a cancer presidency we cannot allow to spread. we have so much breaking of laws that it can get you off guard and not only being that, but the media being attacked and fake news as being marginalized. i thank you for being who you are and there are only a handful of you who are doing real journalism and looking at the tru

"new york times" reporter, reporter for "the washington post" robert costa. we are just hours away from president trump's first address to a joint session of congress. >> mika, that's the big setup. a lot of people talking about this. the trump show, i think, was one of the shows last night talked about it, chris hayes. it is going to be quite a show. what are you expecting? >> we can glean what white house aides told us in terms of tone they are trying to put a twist on his carnage of american. tells news themes will focus on renewal of american spirit and optimistic vision for all americans, whatever that means. the president reportedly told local news reporters last night that his message would be the country has enormous problems but tremendous potential adding that theme. he is expected to focus on what he's accomplished so far in his first weeks in office. here is what he told fox news last night. >> all i can do is speak from the heart and say what i want to do. we have a really terrific health care plan coming out. obama care has been a disaster, way

contributor to "time" magazine elise jordan and nick confessore and jon meacham and joining us also is robert costaws of the weekend came friday afternoon when the president decided to beat the rush to attacking american institutions and instead of attacking the independent judiciary on saturday morning, as he did a few saturdays ago, he went full mussolini and called the press the enemy of the people. is there any other precedent for a president saying this publicly? they all think it privately. nixon actually told it to other advisers privately. but has any president ever said anything like that over the last 240 years, calling them, quote, the enemy of the people? >> not in the sense where you would have a huge blanket statement. presidents have been outraged by specific stories. the jefferson quotation that the president used in his rally was specifically about a sally hemming story that, of course, as dr. kissinger would say, had the virtue of being true. so that was a problem. but no. i think one of the things that we are seeing with the entire trump presidency is, you know, we have this sort

retired vice admiral robert harward turned down the job over disagreements about staffing and before he lit into the media the president announced alexander costas for labor secretary. >>> tonight this cover, wildest show on earth. the bay area republicans say the president likes talking directly to the people. what he doesn't like is the slow pace of washington. >> so i think what you're seeing is you're seeing his frustration as a businessman where he's used to saying let's do this and having it done the next day. >> coming up in 10 minutes you'll hear from a bay area businessman who voted for trump and is now taking action against him. >>> also tonight get ready for round two of the rainstorm. it's going to arrive here in a matter of hours. kpix5 chief meteorologist paul deanno is tracking the radar. paul? >> ken, 4 a.m. it's going to be raining in the south bay by the morning commute tomorrow, another wet one out there, but right now the radar is dry, a few drips of rain beginning to form over the santa cruz mountains. we see the rain developing between now and 4:00 over the next five hours. it makes its way up to the golden gate from the so

costa after the first nominee puzder withdrew on thursday. he would be the first hispanic member of trump's cabinet. >> white house has to look elsewhere for national security advisor. robert howard turned down an offer to fill that position. he declined due to financial and family commitments. names are mentioned for the position including acting national security advisor keith kellogg and trump administration is causing a legal fight over a ban on travelers from 7 predominantly muslim nations. he plans to issue replacement order. details are due out next week. lawyers for administration say in court documents that rebound would focus on foreigners that never entered the united states. >> today mike pence defend secretary jim matt is and other u.s. officials will meet with top world leaders in berlin. they're in germany for mupic security conference and the meeting comes amid global concerns over trump administration to nato. and the president also stressed the need for nato members to all pay a fair share for defense. something secretary matt is repeated this week in a speech before nato. >>> top house republicans have unveiled a rough sketch of massive health overhaul.